Van Nuys name change hits a nerve

If you've been around the San Fernando Valley for at least a generation, long enough to watch half a dozen communities change their names in pursuit of neighborhood identity and higher house values, you might laugh wearily at the bid by an area at the south edge of Van Nuys to switch its address to Sherman Oaks. Kevin Modesti in the Daily News.

Maybe you think this is another comical square dance like the one in the early 1990s in which a status-conscious part of Sepulveda changed its name to North Hills, after which the other part of Sepulveda changed its name to North Hills, after which the first part angrily threatened to change its name again.